Hello! Welcome to this week’s edition of Social Media News for Leaders of Nonprofits, Churches and Ministries.

We know you are busy. And we know that most of you don’t have the time to search the big world wide web for relevant social media news. That is why, each week, we bring you the Top 5 Social Media News that you need to know for this week, and present it to you.

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Top 5 Social Media News

News #1 – Social Media companies take steps to stop misinformation during elections

FACEBOOK FACT CHEKER PROGRAM

TWITTER TOOL

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Our first news is about what social media channels are doing to stop misinformation from spreading during elections – specifically the European Parliament Election that’s coming up and the Indian Elections.

Facebook has hired third-party fact checkers to verify the information during elections in Europe.

Twitter launches a tool where you can report any misleading content that you see on the platform during the elections.

Click the images above to get see the source link to these stories so that you can also take a look at these tools, and maybe even pass it onto anyone during the elections.

If you’re using Facebook Live for your ministry, pay attention, because Facebook announced last April, that May 1st, 2019 is the deadline for all live video uploads to move to a new secure protocol called RTMPS.

They are moving from a nonsecure to a secure environment.

Just pass this information onto your live streaming team or your vendor or any software company, and just make sure that you’re not surprised on May 1st, 2019 because Facebook will be moving all the feeds to this secure protocol.

Click the image above to see the original source link, so that you can just pass it on to your team.

The next news is about Instagram, specifically about Instagram Stories. Instagram Stories now has a Quiz feature added to its stickers.

So if you’re doing Instagram Stories, now you can add a sticker called Quiz, where you can add multiple options to a question that you’re asking your audience.

Earlier, there was an option called Poll, if you remember, where you can ask one question with the polling option, where people can select A or B. Now you can have multiple options.

This helps in engagement. If you use Stories, this is something that you want to go and test and check out. Because as a nonprofit, or a ministry, you constantly are looking for ways to engage with your audience. So features like this can help you do that.

News #4 – Mozilla releases The Internet Health Report 2019

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Our next news is from Mozilla. Mozilla is the organization that’s behind the popular Firefox browser, and they are pioneers in the Internet space.

This week, they released The Internet Health Report 2019.

This is a comprehensive report that talks about future trends like, Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, Biometrics, and all the other factors that might impact the future of the Internet.

So if you are a leader (like me) who likes to look into the future and understand the trends, this can be something that’s fascinating for you.

Click the image above to get the report. Do check it out, and take the time to go through all the various details and statistics that they have provided.

News #5 – Facebook releases Instagram Creators Guide to creators

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The final news is from Facebook, and Instagram, in a way.

Because this is about Facebook releasing an Instagram Creators Guide. Yes! Facebook has a resource section called Creators.

Inside the Creators section, we now have an Instagram Creators Guide that gives you directions, or tips on how to use Instagram TV, Instagram live, and Instagram stories to promote your message and products.

The interesting thing is to see how much of Instagram related instructions we are starting to find within Facebook. The integration between Facebook and Instagram is starting to get tighter and tighter.

So you start wondering if Facebook is starting to project Instagram as its front face, for strategic reasons? We don’t know, something to watch out for.

That’s all we have for you this week. Have a wonderful week.

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Author of The Connected Church. Social Media and Digital Marketing Consultant for Nonprofits, Faith-based Organisations, Churches and Ministries. You can subscribe to Natchi’s email newsletter by clicking here.